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Stephen Severn

CRISP Resident
Areas of ExpertiseTransdisciplinary Art Practice, Photography/Sculpture/Installation, Object-based Research, Contemporary Art, Queer Theories, Phenomenology, Visual Display/Set Design
http://www.stephensevern.com (external link) 

Biography

Stephen Severn is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose practice-based research explores human-material encounters and queer/trans ways-of-becoming. They frequently employ sculpture, installation, and sound to assemble embodied sonic and spatial transformative sites of emergent futurity. Stephen’s current work explores the intersections of critical d/Deaf multimodal listening practices and expanded conceptions of gender through sound installation.

Stephen’s creative research has been supported by the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for their MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from OCAD University. Currently, Stephen is an art history and design theory lecturer in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University, where they are also a Ph.D. candidate and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow conducting practice-based research in the Media and Design Innovation program.

Residency Goals

  • Methodology: explore a methodology rooted in sonic thinking, critical deafening, and trans* ways of becoming
  • Methods: explore sonic installation, 3D printing artefacts and haptic sound sculpture
  • Community: build connection with artists, residents, and guest critics 

Residency project

Stephen’s project will explore sound and gender as situated, multimodal, and interdependent becomings through artefactual and expanded psychoacoustic installation.